• Australian guy's mother dies
• goes on overseas trip to try to deal with it
• gets roofied in Cambodia and accidentally cracks ATM glass
• arrested at the airport for... damaging ATM
• sent to hell on earth Cambodian prison
• gang raped in prison
• Australian embassy is notified but does nothing
• Australian foreign minister Penny Wong does nothing
• multiple meetings with Australian embassy personnel who also do nothing
• except charge the guy for the privilege of sending him money to bribe the prison and judge
• also his lawyer used part of the money to party with friends in Thailand

full interview

Imagine, if you will, that Malaysian-born Minister of Foreign Affairs Penny Wong didn't care to save a white Australian guy stranded in southeast Asia.

This would never have happened in the old times. A guy getting abused like this would have been a stain on the dignity of all Australians.

Was always aware of it but never watched it til last night. Very interesting premise. It actually was inspired by an 80s Twilight Zone episode called Special Service where a guy learns that his life is a tv show.

What did y’all think of Truman Show? Also, shameless plug again for 80s TZ. Original is my favorite but I also love the 80s version and have a soft spot for it since my parents used to watch it and I’d watch along. All the episodes are on YouTube.

I'm watching TOS again. I never finished it back in the day. Not because I didn't enjoy it, it's just that TV shows, especially long episode length ones are easy for me to get bored of.

But TOS is the only Star Trek I like. I forced myself to watch all of Next generation and didn't care for it. Haven't seen the others, but with Deep Space Nine not being as much about self contained stories but long archs, I see myself hating that even more.

But this is about TOS.

I hear all the time "Star Trek was always a woke show...it's not for you right wingers, yadda yadda yadda".

Well after I watch an episode, I check out the review for it on Jammers reviews and I read the comments.

I swear about 90% of the comments for the original series are pointing out all the stuff they find "problematic".

"I love the plot in this episode, but I hate the portrayal of "insert woman character"

or

"Wow this episode basically took a pro-colonialism stance, that did not age well"

To me, if you have to constantly dodge landmines of things that irritate you in a show, then you're not the target audience.

It would be like me claiming that Marvel movies are right wing entertainment because of things like law and order, justice, etc. Then I'd have to go "but I hate this feminism inserted here, and this race pandering here" and on and on. It would be absurd for me to claim that Marvel movies are conservative if I'm having to constantly express my frustration with woke elements.

Likewise, while there are some philosophical underpinnings to the writers of Star Trek that are subversive and leftist, 98% of what comes through in practice is stuff that's refreshing to me as an old school Conservative Christian.

The very stuff they gripe about is some of the most appealing aspects to me about the show. The Star Trek writers essentially understood the nature of women and wrote them accordingly and realistically to reality as just one example.

And while they did have some left leaning tendencies that sometimes comes through, the thing people don't talk about is how influenced in Christian Conservative thinking even atheists were in their thinking back then by virtue of having grown up and lived in a Christian culture.

Modern Star Trek is an example of how post-Christian thinking has worked it's way into writing.

Well the original 60s Star Trek has so much thinking and viewpoint that was right in line with how normal people viewed things. Yes some liberal stuff got through, and they probably would have gotten away with more if they could have, but there are just generally character attitudes rooted in how men are supposed to be, and how women are supposed to be, and values rooted in at least the concept of objective morality, which they unknowingly are getting from the Christian society.

So I wouldn't claim that Star Trek is a Conservative show, but my point is that when I watch it, it's like a breath of fresh air, while the so called die hard Star Trek fans, have to scrape through with a fine tooth comb to extract the few things they like while having to give caveats about all the "problematic" things.

When there's a show with as much wokeness as the so-called "bigotry" that these Star Trek fans are finding in TOS, then I stop watching that show, I don't claim that I like it, and I certainly don't claim it for my side.

If Star Trek TOS was as "progressive" and "woke" as they claim, I'd be having a hard time watching it, instead of it being like a refreshing gulp of crisp water contrasted with the sewage that is modern day ideology and these "fan" comments wouldn't be filled with statements about how much this and that element are "tough to stomach" and "a product of its time".

I finally managed to land a real job with real benefits, and this is my first foray into corporate America. In grad school the nonsense was largely limited to emails I could have a chuckle about and move on with my day. Is the corporate world any worse than this or are the virtue signaling retards just as easy to ignore?

I never played Oblivion, I'm early into the remake and having a blast, it feels new and exciting and still nostalgic. I don't game that much these days but I'm really into it, so Im not going to let the modern bs ruin it for me, I bit my tongue about the body type bs.

But I have to say the multitude of black NPCs is immersion breaking. I don't remember it in Skyrim so I asked chatgpt and it said they added them in for diversity bs. One or two black NPCs in the world is fine and doesn't ruin the lore/logic, but when you have tons of them it does. It makes zero sense and immediately pulls me out of the world I was just being immersed in and reminds me it's 2025 and everything is infected by this shit.

I'm going to just enjoy the game but I'm tired of blacks being inserted into fucking everything. its never Asians or Indians or something else either, the obsession with blacks in the media is insane.